The Problems With Yahoo!

The problems we have encountered in our organization related to the purchase of Associated Content by Yahoo continue to mount.

Alex S. Gabor, which is a pen name used by the Infinite Freedom Foundation, along with many other pen names registered at Associated Content has been shut down, censored, prevented from publishing additional material, blocked from getting paid a puny 150th of a penny per page view, blocked from accessing or changing any content that has already been published, unless you fax or snail mail them an I-9 Form from the Internal Revenue Service. They apparently only request this in the event that you earn more than $500 in a given year or you have violated some terms of service contract with them.

Unfortunately, they don't tell you which is the case, and it if was a terms of service violation I can only imagine what the Securities and Exchange Commission is up to now, or what the FDIC thinks about what we have been publishing, or what the Washington State Financial Institutions Department is investigating.

Perhaps it was our stories about Frontier Bank and Banner Bank which led to the Tacoma News Tribune picking up that story which everyone claimed was a rumor but which in fact was true - yes the Infinite Freedom Foundation is trying to consolidate banks in Washington State despite the fact that the FDIC is not cooperating as it should or could, or the fact that there are still more than 40 banks in the State that are in deep financial trouble.

Or maybe it was because of the more than 20 stories we have published on the corruption i Soap Lake where we are making the films, "The Penny King" and "The Soap Opera at Soap Lake", a syndicated television series in the making.

No matter whether it is because of the exposure that the Justice Department is leaving itself open to if it does not act soon in the matters of Soap Lake or some other content producer terms of service violation, something is going to be done soon!

Another rumor is that the FBI has been investigating Soap Lake Officials for some time now and a $100 million a year meth ring is about to be busted in Grant County from the highest levels of office and it is because of this that the accounts at Associated Content have been frozen - we know too much to publish there and get paid for it!

It has been more than two years since I last wrote for the American Chronicle. Today I am happy to be able to publish this story at American Chronicle because I love to write and money is not the reason I write, even though I earned less than $300 for researching, writing and publishing more than 300 articles at Associated Content on various subjects including the collapsed real estate markets, the global currency and debt crisis, and thousands of little odds and ends related to crime and criminals.

There were more than 300,000 writers, source providers, content producers, who contributed more than 2.4 million stories, articles, publications, announcements, and various links before Yahoo Bought Associated Content.

The venture capitalists who invested in Associated Content as a start-up made out like bandits. Perhaps next time writers will think twice about where to invest their time, talent, energy and research.

The writers got less than pennies per story!

The stockholders of Associated Content, once a private company, now part of a deep pocketed public company, got $100 million, according to press releases put out by both firms.

Do I smell a class action lawsuit on behalf of 300,000 contributors to Associated Content?

Do the math.

If the $100 million were distributed to the 300,000 writers, venture capitalists, management,employees and agents, would they have received more than 150th of a penny per page view?

I think so!